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Well this car turned into more than I intended to do with it. So I'll make a thread on here for it.
My wife always wanted a cabby, and so did I kinda. I put my motorcycle up for trade on craigslist last year... My bike was running driving etc... I got a response for a guy who had a cabby but it hadn't moved in many years.
I already have a few bikes... Four aren't in this picture
So we decided to trade, my wife wanted it, this guy was starting to ruin it, and I saw it had potential.
Here she is in all her originally glory.
She had 47,000 original miles on her, and was taken apart by this guy... He said the exhaust manifold was cracked... Tried to change it, and he failed miserably... Broke a few studs in the head etc. For me no big deal. I swapped a clean head, timing belt, waterpump etc in a few hours. Turns out it didn't need a new exhaust manifold, only a donut gasket between the manifold and the down pipe
After I got it running and driving I started going to town on her.
Degrease and clean
First pass with the rotary
You can see another one of my bikes in this picture lol.
Cleaned and I put all the trim etc back together.... Flares everything this guy took apart.
I dailyed this thing like this all of Summer 2014.
Well it's 2015...I've been gathering parts for this car
Wife went out... I brought the wheels into the house, and we started taking them apart
I didn't like the finish that was on them so I sandblasted the faces.
Masked them carefully.
Half assembled a two wheels to start test fitting them.
Kinda hard to picture without the coilovers on , but this was mostly for width purpose. The barrels in the front are going to be swapped for larger on the inside. The wheels are pretty aggressive at ET 0. There's enough room to mill them, however I don't feel it's necessary at this point to do that.
Shortened + reinforced oil pan & Pump be designed by http://www.tech-53.com/
I have most of the parts, but waiting on the extended upper strut mounts & poly rears.
Found these from September on my phone.
Last weekend
My wife always wanted a cabby, and so did I kinda. I put my motorcycle up for trade on craigslist last year... My bike was running driving etc... I got a response for a guy who had a cabby but it hadn't moved in many years.
I already have a few bikes... Four aren't in this picture
So we decided to trade, my wife wanted it, this guy was starting to ruin it, and I saw it had potential.
Here she is in all her originally glory.
She had 47,000 original miles on her, and was taken apart by this guy... He said the exhaust manifold was cracked... Tried to change it, and he failed miserably... Broke a few studs in the head etc. For me no big deal. I swapped a clean head, timing belt, waterpump etc in a few hours. Turns out it didn't need a new exhaust manifold, only a donut gasket between the manifold and the down pipe
After I got it running and driving I started going to town on her.
Degrease and clean
First pass with the rotary
You can see another one of my bikes in this picture lol.
Cleaned and I put all the trim etc back together.... Flares everything this guy took apart.
I dailyed this thing like this all of Summer 2014.
Well it's 2015...I've been gathering parts for this car
Wife went out... I brought the wheels into the house, and we started taking them apart
I didn't like the finish that was on them so I sandblasted the faces.
Masked them carefully.
Half assembled a two wheels to start test fitting them.
Kinda hard to picture without the coilovers on , but this was mostly for width purpose. The barrels in the front are going to be swapped for larger on the inside. The wheels are pretty aggressive at ET 0. There's enough room to mill them, however I don't feel it's necessary at this point to do that.
Shortened + reinforced oil pan & Pump be designed by http://www.tech-53.com/
I have most of the parts, but waiting on the extended upper strut mounts & poly rears.
Found these from September on my phone.
Last weekend
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